Questions tagged [fonts]
{fonts} is about fonts and how to use them. It deals with questions about changing family, shape and weight of fonts, but also with font packages. If your question is not about a font in general but about specific symbols, use {symbols} instead. For questions about font sizes, use {fontsize}.
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Can I change the font color to black as a scale of grays? [duplicate]
I have written my thesis with the default black color in latex.
The girl from the copy shop told me that that black is a composite black instead of a scale of grays, therefore it count as color and ...
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How to add an OTF font?
Having a bit of trouble understanding how to add a font to ConTeXt. I downloaded Libre Caslon to test it from Font Squirrel site which are .otf files.
I added them under /home/gary/programs/context/...
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How to Make Trajan Text Bold Using Pdflatex?
MWE:
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{trajan}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\LARGE
\noindent\trjnfamily{HOW TO MAKE TRAJAN TEXT BOLD?}\\[20pt]
\noindent\textbf{\trjnfamily{BUT THIS ...
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Extarticle [14pt] option ignored on Overleaf with custom .sty package for math worksheet
I am working on Overleaf and trying to compile a worksheet in 14pt font using \documentclass[14pt]{extarticle}. However, the output PDF renders two different font sizes, as shown in the image below.
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Unicode math + LuaLatex issue with fractions in exponents
I am having a bug with Unicode math, where fractions in exponents do not behave well if there are multiple fonts loaded. Here is a MWE demonstration (LuaLatex 2025, replicated locally and on Overleaf):...
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Obtaining math symbols' low-level definitions
One can simply obtain the definition of some math symbols that have no arguments, like
latexdef alpha
\alpha:
\mathchar"10B
\the\alpha:
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But for those symbols, which can only be input by a ...
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How do 256+ character pdfLaTeX fonts work, and how to make one?
I am talking about those "fake fonts" that are composed of multiple fonts to have more characters. An example is Computer Modern, which uses multiple fonts, one for text symbols, one for ...
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How can I map TFM data for a type1 font in LuaLaTeX (probably using luaotfload.patch_font_unsafe) when the font encoding has unused slots?
This code is derived from code by Max Chernoff, but the mangling is entirely my responsibility.
Aim: to add tounicode mappings to the characters in uzdr.pfb (URW's clone of Zapf Dingbats) when ...
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Install Casio font series FX-CG 50
I wanted to understand how to assign names to fonts GraphicSeriesFontSet from CASIO website https://edu.casio.com/education/fontset/dl/GraphicSeriesFontSet.zip in order to use them without installing ...
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A new kind of ligature, connected d/p
I have been trying to coerce Claude to help me, but it is hilariously bad. I am trying to create a new character that looks like d <space> p, where the <space> becomes a connector. The ...
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Change proportional to tabular numbers of equation counter
I am using lowercase proportional figures in the main body of documents, causing equation counters to be lowercase proportional figures as well. However, especially with multiple equations on a single ...
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Define a font by file rather than by name?
I'm trying to follow pages 51-52 of the book Fonts out of ConTeXt to define a font by file: rather than name:; but I must be overlooking something.
The path to the font file is /home/gary/programs/...
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In what font is the curly T? [duplicate]
In what font is this curly T from Lee's Introduction to Topological Manifolds?
Closest I could find was from TeX font eusm10:
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Fonts with corporite identity [closed]
Currently we use pdflatex and have to look like word a bit.
Means we use fonts helvet for base text, mathptmx for math and courier for code samples.
Well, now we want to switch to fonts offered by ...
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Degree character breaks compilation with latex+dvipdfmx and fourier package
I have encountered a build breakage which I could reduce to the following document:
\documentclass[dvipdfmx]{article}
\usepackage{fourier}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\showoutput
n°1
\end{...
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